LGRU August 2012

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¿Open design?
by Aitor Méndez 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Dear all, I'm Aitor, from Madrid. Maybe you can remember me from LGRU Brussels workshops. Lately I have been participating in the Open Design Conference in Barcelona. My impression was negative in many sense. I wrote the following comment about my experience and the disagreement with the main moderator (moderator, in the same sense of terminator), Alastair Fuad-Luke. All in spanish, sorry ;) Subjects: - Strategies from markets to capitalize the growing social consensus over the free culture approaches. - How a vertical structure, like FAD, can shown a horizontal behavior. - How marketing can reappropriate horizontal strategies just with the use of language. Best, aitor - Queridos todos y todas, de vuelta ya del Open Design Conference os traslado una primera impresión. Aunque quiero escribir un comentario más reposado y razonado sobre el contenido de las intervenciones he expulsado el siguiente exabrupto al calor de los acontecimientos. Adelanto ya que mi impresión ha sido la de estar ante los mecanismos que el mercado pone en marcha para rentabilizar el potencial que reside en un creciente consenso social alrededor de los presupuestos de la cultura libre. Aquí va, de momento, el relato de mi encontronazo con Alastair Fuad-Luke, moderador de la mesa redonda en la que participé que constituye un síntoma del entorno en el que se desarrolló la escena. Un análisis más serio vendrá más adelante. ------------------------- Alastair Fuad Luke, maestro de ceremonias en el encuentro, después de proclamar a los cuatro vientos que aquello era horizontal y que todo el mundo podía expresarse con libertad, introdujo un sesgo tremendamente descarado siendo moderador (no hubiera sido tan grave si hubiera sido un participante más). Yo no salía de mi asombro. En un momento dado en el que Alstair animaba al público a expresar una exaltación ingenua sobre la creatividad propuse una perspectiva contraria en la que denunciaba su instrumentalización y subrayaba la dificultad de hacer una distinción objetiva entre una disciplina creativa y otra que no lo es. Acabé con una frase, más o menos así: O bien la creatividad no existe o bien está distribuida por todos los ámbitos de nuestra vida (que viene a ser lo mismo que no existir, porque no constituye un rasgo diferencial). En ese momento Alastair se apresuró a resumir mi intervención: "ah, la creatividad está en todos los ámbitos de nuestra vida" con grimoso aire de gurú mediático y dando la vuelta al sentido de mis palabras. En otra ocasión, cuando intenté describir con un ejemplo uno de los mecanismos con los que el lenguaje gráfico produce un tipo de subjetividad coincidente con los intereses del mercado se apresuró a hacer una encuesta entre el público asistente simplificando terriblemente la cuestión hasta hacer desaparecer su sentido, preguntando, en un alarde impúdico de evidente manipulación, digno del feriante más zafio, si pensaban, las personas del público, que su subjetividad estaba condicionada por el mercado. La gente se quedó, creo, desorientada y no contestó a tal idiotez, escenario que usó para quitarme credibilidad expresando en voz alta para toda la audiencia: "el público no está de acuerdo contigo, Aitor". Francamente, no se puede e ser más manipulador. Estoy muy, pero que muy enfadado. Tras introducir la cuestión de cómo se producen los deseos, aludiendo a los mecanismos externos que nos hacen desear de una forma u otra enfunción de unos u otros intereses, se dedicó a preguntar a la gente cuáles eran sus sueños, y a decir que quizá no se trataba tanto de deseos como de sueños, bajando así enormemente el nivel de la discusión y reduciendo la interacción con el público a una serie de tópicos inservibles. Una de las 10 estrategias descritas por Chomsky para el control mediático es precisamente esta: tratar a las personas como niños para hacer desaparecer su capacidad crítica*. Lamentable de todo punto. Es importante detectar cuáles son los mecanismos que el mercado va elaborando para rentabilizar el enorme potencial del consenso social alrededor de la cultura libre. Mi asistencia al congreso ha estado motivada por una curiosidad franca sobre la forma en que el FAD, organización que no es conocida especialmente por su horizontalidad, abordaba esta cuestión y mi conclusión provisional es que, en vista de estos episodios y el tono de las intervenciones (excepto la de Victor Viña, aunque no pude verlas todas) resultaron ser meros instrumentos de subsunción del ámbito libre en el mercado. Por ejemplo, muchas de las intervenciones abundaron en un leguaje procedente del márquetin que daba por sentado que las relaciones interpersonales descansaban sobre la producción y el consumo, reduciendo al individuo a productor, consumidor o prosumidor (lo mismo da), otras ofrecían perspectivas de producción distribuida de objetos hiperdiseñados, perpetuando así los tópicos que deberían ser cuestionados desde el ámbito de la cultura libre. Lo que voy a hacer es madurarlo un poco y escribir un texto reposado, bien razonado y estructurado de forma sencilla explicando mis impresiones que, como veis, no son muy buenas. --------------------- * Las 10 principales estrategias de manipulación mediática según Noam Chomsky http://bit.ly/MWqQ6o 5- Dirigirse al público como criaturas de poca edad. La mayoría de la publicidad dirigida al gran público utiliza discurso, argumentos, personajes y entonación particularmente infantiles, muchas veces próximos a la debilidad, como si el espectador fuese una criatura de poca edad o un deficiente mental. Cuanto más se pretenda engañar al espectador, más se tiende a adoptar un tono infantilizante. ¿Por qué? “Si uno se dirige a una persona como si ella tuviese la edad de 12 años o menos, entonces, en razón de la sugestionabilidad, tenderá, con cierta probabilidad, a una respuesta o reacción también desprovista de un sentido crítico como la de una persona de 12 años o menos de edad (ver Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas)”.

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Re: [LGRU] ¿Open design?
by John Haltiwanger 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Haltiwanger <john.haltiwanger(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [LGRU] ¿Open design? To: Aitor Méndez <aitor(a)e451.net> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Aitor Méndez <aitor(a)e451.net> wrote: > Thanks John, for your time and attention. I'm sorry I bothered you with > the question "best". > No it was not a bother at all! I just wanted to expand the scope of best, and continue interrogating it. > > I agree with you. In fact, the argument you hold is "the evidence" and > what I propose is something that could be operating behind the scene and > should be taken as another element to think the model. For this reason I > use conditional words like "often" or "could hide." > > My intention is to show that the imperative of speed is (among other > things) a condition of the competitive environment and deserves to be > incorporated into the design approaches. > > Certainly! And it is precisely this aspect of speed that hinders the transition from interfaces: when you have a physical memory, a combination of mouse movements and keyboard shortcuts, that quickly change the canvas to more fit your imagination, it is difficult to transition to an alternative approach which drags you all the way back to a turtle pace. However, we have success stories here as well. For instance the vim text editor is notorious for putting first time users back to the first time they ever tried to use a word processor. Only more complicated ;) But new vim users appear all the time, and it continues to grow more popular. So there is also an aspect of the "reward" for the work. And, of course, with vim you can move so fast that you will be frustrated to ever have to use another editor. Also, is there a reason to take our discussion offlist? or perhaps LGRU would be interested in this next round of thoughts?

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CALL: Piksels & Lines Orchestra Residency (PLO)
by Piksel infobot 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

yo, here's the PLO commision call. Please fwd... ---------------------------------------- OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS Piksels & Lines Orchestra Residency (PLO) The Libre Graphics Research Unit is a traveling lab where ideas for creative tools are developed. Its diverse activities range from the practical to the theoretical via writing, research meetings, experimental prototyping, conferences and workshops. The Research Unit is an initiative of four European media-labs actively engaged in Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Free Culture. At the core of the LGRU project is a series of research commissions that allow artists and software developers to work together at the same level, imagining and building future graphic and performative tools. In this context, Piksel is offering a collaborative research residency for one artist and one developer, to jointly explore the interoperability and expansion of functionality in self-produced and/or existing libre graphic tools, placed in a performative setting. The free/libre graphics tools can include, but are not limited to the following technologies: GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, MyPaint, FontForge, Pure Data, Open Frameworks, Py-Cessing, Processing, The Underweb, Blender etc. Artists and developers may submit proposals individually that suggest what compentences and perspectives they look for a residency partnership, or an artist/developer duo may jointly apply for the residency. The collaboration should result in an artwork that extends existing Libre graphics software, following the guidelines of the Piksels & Lines Orchestra, a prototype developed during the third LGRU research seminar hosted by Piksel in Bergen June 6-9, 2012. The guidelines are: - Turn tools into instruments - Explore the performative potential of Libre Graphics tools - Use API interoperability between software for unexpected connections - Experiment with format interoperability between software Presentation and video of the Piksels & Lines Orchestra prototype: http://blogs.lgru.net/ft/theme/piksels-and-lines/turning-tools-into- instruments https://vimeo.com/44751183 The residency shall result in an artwork that will be shown at the Piksel festival November 22-25, 2012. We offer: - a residency period of up to 3 weeks at Piksel in Bergen, Norway during the months of October and November 2012. Specific dates to be determined in collaboration with the selected artists. - an artist fee of up to 4000 EUR per person - a production budget to be discussed - support from the Piksel community and LGRU community, in the further technical development of the selected project throughout the residency period - presentation of the commission and the resulting artwork at the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway from November 22-25, 2012 - presentation of the commission at the LGRU Conference in Porto, Portugal in June 2013 - Support for the documentation of the research and final work, and dissemination of this documentation (i.e. code repository, web publication resources) Requirements: - the artist/developer must be willing and able to travel to Bergen for a residency period of up to 3 weeks, and to the Piksel festival in Bergen from November 22-25. - the artist/developer must have advanced technical knowledge allowing him or her to experiment with the above-mentioned technologies - the artist/developer must be willing to work in a close collaborative setting with a second person - the artist must be willing to openly and thoroughly document the artistic process Proposal: - an outline of the concept underlying the work that you wish to develop (200 words max) - a general outline of the scope of the final work (200 words max - can include visual sketches) - a motivation for why you would like to work in the context of this particular residency as well as an overview of your interest in the technologies mentioned above (250 words max) - an outline of the research and development plan for the work (250 words max) - an up-to-date CV including links to previous work Please send your commission proposal to info [at] piksel.no Deadline for submission is Wednesday 26. September 2012. The candidate is chosen by representatives from Piksel and the LGRU team. Applicants will be informed by 10. October 2012. About Piksel and LGRU: Piksel (Bergen, Norway) http://www.piksel.no Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source software, hardware and art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software. The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of technology expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial demands of the software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is focusing on the open source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close connections between art, politics, technology and economy. Libre Graphics Research Unit (LGRU) http://lgru.net/ The Libre Graphics Research Unit is a traveling lab where ideas for creative tools are developed. Its diverse activities range from the practical to the theoretical via writing, research meetings, experimental prototyping, conferences and workshops. The Research Unit is an initiative of four European media-labs actively engaged in Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Free Culture. This cross-disciplinary project involves artists, designers and programmers and is developed in dialogue with the Libre Graphics Community. The unit is co- organized by Constant (Brussels, BE), Medialab Prado (Madrid, (ES), WORM (Rotterdam, NL) and Piksel (Bergen, NO).

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Donatella on maternal leave
by donatella＠constantvzw.org 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

Hello everybody, I don't think everybody knew it but I'm pregnant (of twins!). My maternal leave would have started end September but due to some complications, I'm forced to stop working already this week, sooner than expected. I'll be back around February 2013. Until that moment, my colleague Peter Westenberg of Constant (certain among you know him already) will replace me in the administration and coordination of the project, together with Femke. Please, for any question contact him at: peter(a)constantvzw.org. Thank you. Greetings, Donatella

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Stereolux 2012 - Journées du Code Créatif 1ère Edition - Conférence Miller Puckette
by John Haltiwanger 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

cette traduction google peux vous dire que je n'ai aucune compréhension pour le français, mais il ya beaucoup d'imagination et d'émerveillement devant ce qui pourrait être dans cette vidéo. potentiel des sous-titres s'il vous plaît? et voila, et profitez-en! http://vimeo.com/39432325

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Re: [LGRU] LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 5
by Ana G. Angulo ((Montejana)) 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

link: http://culturarwx.net/ ........ Ana G. Angulo ((Montejana)) www.montejana.net www.anagangulo.es ((...)) www.m2sonido.net graficalibre.artediez.es El 25/08/2012, a las 12:00, lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org escribió: Send LGRU mailing list submissions to lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org You can reach the person managing the list at lgru-owner(a)lists.constantvzw.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LGRU digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 4 (Ana G. Angulo ((Montejana))) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:29:00 +0200 From: "Ana G. Angulo ((Montejana))" <ana(a)montejana.net> To: lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org Subject: Re: [LGRU] LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 4 Message-ID: <257AB889-0D69-4E41-8064-710DB6C3C3B9(a)montejana.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Hi! I met Ann in Labsurlab also and I wrote once piece for the magazine about SOL1 ( 1? semana de las obras libres, free/open works week) i think it was in the next number that Ann. We are going the three, Belen, Luis and me. :) See you soon! Kss Ana ........ Ana G. Angulo ((Montejana)) www.montejana.net www.anagangulo.es ((...)) www.m2sonido.net graficalibre.artediez.es El 23/08/2012, a las 12:00, lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org escribi?: Send LGRU mailing list submissions to lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org You can reach the person managing the list at lgru-owner(a)lists.constantvzw.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LGRU digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 (Ana G. Angulo (Montejana)) 2. Re: LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 (Femke Snelting) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:58:40 +0100 From: "Ana G. Angulo (Montejana)" <ana(a)montejana.net> To: lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org Subject: Re: [LGRU] LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 Message-ID: <CAFETDp+thmGhuOkx54P=5YkyED6g706iE2-2vQr7RW6mp3AWqA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Femke! How are you? I am following the list and i am in touch with Lila, we met in Colombia last year during the Labsurlab. Do you know her magazine culturarwx.net? Bss! Disculpame si hay faltas, escribo desde el m?vil. ... Ana G. Angulo www.anagangulo.es (...) m2sonido.net www.artediez.es/graficalibre El 22/08/2012 12:00, <lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org> escribi?: > Send LGRU mailing list submissions to > lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lgru-owner(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LGRU digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Grafica Libre in Spanish (Femke Snelting) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:06:01 +0200 > From: Femke Snelting <snelting(a)collectifs.net> > To: lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org > Subject: [LGRU] Grafica Libre in Spanish > Message-ID: <5033DC19.6040307(a)collectifs.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Lila Pagola https://identi.ca/lila just pointed to this list: > > http://listas.usla.org.ar/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grafica-libre > > could be interesting to follow? > > F > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LGRU mailing list > LGRU(a)lists.constantvzw.org > https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru > > > End of LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 > *********************************** >

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Re: [LGRU] LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 4
by Ana G. Angulo ((Montejana)) 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Hi! I met Ann in Labsurlab also and I wrote once piece for the magazine about SOL1 ( 1º semana de las obras libres, free/open works week) i think it was in the next number that Ann. We are going the three, Belen, Luis and me. :) See you soon! Kss Ana ........ Ana G. Angulo ((Montejana)) www.montejana.net www.anagangulo.es ((...)) www.m2sonido.net graficalibre.artediez.es El 23/08/2012, a las 12:00, lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org escribió: Send LGRU mailing list submissions to lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org You can reach the person managing the list at lgru-owner(a)lists.constantvzw.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LGRU digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 (Ana G. Angulo (Montejana)) 2. Re: LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 (Femke Snelting) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:58:40 +0100 From: "Ana G. Angulo (Montejana)" <ana(a)montejana.net> To: lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org Subject: Re: [LGRU] LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 Message-ID: <CAFETDp+thmGhuOkx54P=5YkyED6g706iE2-2vQr7RW6mp3AWqA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Femke! How are you? I am following the list and i am in touch with Lila, we met in Colombia last year during the Labsurlab. Do you know her magazine culturarwx.net? Bss! Disculpame si hay faltas, escribo desde el m?vil. ... Ana G. Angulo www.anagangulo.es (...) m2sonido.net www.artediez.es/graficalibre El 22/08/2012 12:00, <lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org> escribi?: > Send LGRU mailing list submissions to > lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lgru-owner(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LGRU digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Grafica Libre in Spanish (Femke Snelting) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:06:01 +0200 > From: Femke Snelting <snelting(a)collectifs.net> > To: lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org > Subject: [LGRU] Grafica Libre in Spanish > Message-ID: <5033DC19.6040307(a)collectifs.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Lila Pagola https://identi.ca/lila just pointed to this list: > > http://listas.usla.org.ar/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grafica-libre > > could be interesting to follow? > > F > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LGRU mailing list > LGRU(a)lists.constantvzw.org > https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru > > > End of LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 > *********************************** >

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Re: [LGRU] LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3
by Ana G. Angulo (Montejana) 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hi Femke! How are you? I am following the list and i am in touch with Lila, we met in Colombia last year during the Labsurlab. Do you know her magazine culturarwx.net? Bss! Disculpame si hay faltas, escribo desde el móvil. ... Ana G. Angulo www.anagangulo.es (...) m2sonido.net www.artediez.es/graficalibre El 22/08/2012 12:00, <lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org> escribió: > Send LGRU mailing list submissions to > lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lgru-request(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lgru-owner(a)lists.constantvzw.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LGRU digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Grafica Libre in Spanish (Femke Snelting) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:06:01 +0200 > From: Femke Snelting <snelting(a)collectifs.net> > To: lgru(a)lists.constantvzw.org > Subject: [LGRU] Grafica Libre in Spanish > Message-ID: <5033DC19.6040307(a)collectifs.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Lila Pagola https://identi.ca/lila just pointed to this list: > > http://listas.usla.org.ar/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grafica-libre > > could be interesting to follow? > > F > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LGRU mailing list > LGRU(a)lists.constantvzw.org > https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/lgru > > > End of LGRU Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 > *********************************** >

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Grafica Libre in Spanish
by Femke Snelting 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Lila Pagola https://identi.ca/lila just pointed to this list: http://listas.usla.org.ar/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grafica-libre could be interesting to follow? F

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